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With no evidence at all, Public Safety Minister Steadroy Cutie Benjamin is blaming the main opposition United Progressive Party for Monday’s bomb scare which shut down parts of St John’s.<\/p>

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“It is terrible that political operatives of the main opposition party should do and start a panic to create havoc which will affect our economy and damage our tourism product around the world,” Benjamin said in an interview.<\/p>\n

He said this is happening because of the possibility of a general election.<\/p>

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“Over the years before a date for the election, there was no threat at all; but recently from the time a date of the election appears to be closeby, these disturbances goes up,” he told state media.<\/p>

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However, Benjamin admitted that he had no evidence at all linking the United Progressive Party to the crime.<\/p>\n

“I cannot say with certainty that anyone has indicated to me that its the opposition, but we are making an intelligent deduction of the facts and one can conclude reasonably\u00a0that this really was done by political operatives of the main opposition party to destabilise this government and the country,” the public safety minister said.<\/p>

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On Monday, someone called the Immigration Department to report that there was an explosive device inside the building.<\/p>\n

No bomb was ever found but the scare caused the authorities to evacuate\u00a0a number of businesses in the area.<\/p>

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“We shall do everything in our power to track and trace the origins of this telephone call and the person who started this matter and I can assure you that the person, party or individuals will be dealt with to the full extent of the law,” Benjamin warned.<\/p>

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With no evidence at all, Public Safety Minister Steadroy Cutie Benjamin is blaming the main opposition United Progressive Party for Monday’s bomb scare which shut down parts of St John’s. “It is terrible that political operatives of the main opposition party should do and start a panic to create havoc which will affect our economy […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-2","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\nCutie blames UPP for bomb scare - Antigua News Room<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/cutie-blames-upp-for-bomb-scare\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Cutie blames UPP for bomb scare\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"With no evidence at all, Public Safety Minister Steadroy Cutie Benjamin is blaming the main opposition United Progressive Party for Monday’s bomb scare which shut down parts of St John’s. “It is terrible that political operatives of the main opposition party should do and start a panic to create havoc which will affect our economy […]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/cutie-blames-upp-for-bomb-scare\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Antigua News Room\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/antiguanewsroom\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2017-12-19T13:40:54+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2017-12-19T14:06:05+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/IMG_20171218_102249-768x1024.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"768\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1024\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Editor\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@AntiguaNewsRoom\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@AntiguaNewsRoom\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Editor\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/cutie-blames-upp-for-bomb-scare\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/cutie-blames-upp-for-bomb-scare\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Editor\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/#\/schema\/person\/36cac05ef6398fe56ae3e6317f8535c5\"},\"headline\":\"Cutie blames UPP for bomb scare\",\"datePublished\":\"2017-12-19T13:40:54+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2017-12-19T14:06:05+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/cutie-blames-upp-for-bomb-scare\/\"},\"wordCount\":285,\"commentCount\":7,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/#organization\"},\"articleSection\":[\"Featured\",\"News\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/cutie-blames-upp-for-bomb-scare\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/cutie-blames-upp-for-bomb-scare\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/cutie-blames-upp-for-bomb-scare\/\",\"name\":\"Cutie blames UPP for bomb scare - 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